I say this every year but “I can’t believe my little girl is starting – insert current grade here.” This year she moves to the middle school building (right next door to the elementary building).  I imagine she must feel smaller walking through those bigger hallways.  She is both exited and nervous with lots of new stuff happening this year. New building, 2 teachers vs. one, a locker, and a snack bar in the...

As I mentioned in a previous post, Kayla has really been making great progress recently with the piano playing.  She seems to really enjoy it and her little fingers amaze me when she’s playing 5 or 6 notes at a time.  Anyway, I have a new portable audio recorder that I was testing so I had her play a few songs for me earlier today. Click here to...

Last week I successfully put a huge hole in the water inlet on the kiddos slip and slide. So when Amy and the kids came home with a new one, Nathan wanted to try it out as soon as possible. And try it out he did! If I were to dive on that thing the way Nathan did, I’m pretty sure I’d be in the hospital right now with assorted broken ribs. He could not have been happier. Three cheers for a long seven dollar piece of...

It’s been brutal hot here in Houston for the past couple of weeks. At least 95 every day with a  heat index well over 100 pretty much every day. Hot, muggy and nasty. The kind of heat that makes me want to move back to...

What a slacker I’ve been! Over a month without a post.  Kayla started spring soccer recently and this season the kids voted for Gators as their team name. I’m trying to get her to be more aggressive in going after the ball this year as she is content to just run up and down the field all day long.  I’ve also been trying to teach her a piece of advice I read from Wayne Gretzky. He said one of the keys for him his whole...

Kayla has been working on getting her second front tooth out for a while now and tonight she finally did it.  I got lucky to capture a pretty funny sequence.  I love her expression in the third photo – sort of a shocked look. Click on the image for a larger...